Every ideology is a religion.
When someone claims they do not have a religion, this is usually not the case.
The complete absence of a religion is nihilism, which is not a permanent ideological state.
The state of nihilism is temporary, usually while someone is working out their internal philosophy.
However, this state eventually vanishes once a personal philosophy is stabilized (for better or worse).
Even ideologies that claim to be of the atheist or materialist variation are still religious in nature.
This is because even atheism and materialism cannot escape metaphysics.
Every ideology has its god, its utopia, its holy books, its prophets, its sinners, its reconciliation, etc.
The ideology of Marxist Communism is a great example.
This ideology claims to be absolutely atheistic and purely materialistic.
However, we can easily convert and breakdown this political ideology into its religious components.
God = The “benevolent” Marxist Central Committee.
Utopia = A perfect equal society devoid of all human suffering.
Holy Books = The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, Pravda etc.
Prophets = Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc. – all revered as quasi-infallible figures by communists.
Sinners = Conservatives, Bourgeoises, Traditionalists, Business-Owners, etc.
Reconciliation = Struggle Sessions, Cancel Culture, and other forms of public humiliation rituals.
Die hard communists can easily be compared to any other religious zealot.
Criticize Marx, and a communist will unleash a religious fury as if you insulted a holy prophet.
Millions of people were tortured and killed at the hands of those swept away by this religion.
This is just one example of one specific political ideology.
This simple comparison can be applied to any other political ideology as well.
All ideologies are religious and are religions.
What belief system is going to be your personal foundation?
What belief system is going to be society’s foundation?
Does your religion put its full faith in man as the absolute?
Does your religion put its full faith in something higher than man (divine law)?
Does it hold man accountable to a higher abstract law to dispense truth, justice, and good?
Humans are imperfect beings.
Either way there is going to be corruption when a religion is put into social/practical practice.
When the law is something divine and abstract above man, we observe a better society.
The entire idea that “No one is above the law” comes from a religion that places truth, justice, and the good above man, rather than allowing these concepts to be at man’s whims and popular sentiment.
When our religion places our full faith in man, we are at the mercy of the men in power.
When our religion places our full faith in the divine, even the men in power are accountable to it.
Philosophical Musings 